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Congratulations to UConn alumni Kathryn Morel ’18 (CLAS) and Ryan Gadea ’18 (ENG) on officially tying the knot.

Two graduate students from UConn Pharmacy, Leila Sharifi and Saeed Najafian, attended the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting in November, where they each received an award.

Najafian earned the First Place Academic Award, while Sharifi was honored with the Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development, and Manufacturing (PD2M) Award.

Blanka Rogina, M.S., Ph.D., of the UConn School of Medicine has been newly elected vice president of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Rogina will serve a 1-year term in this national leadership position, beginning January 2026.

Former UConn Men’s Basketball player Caron Butler has been named to the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame Class of 2026.

Xiaobo Zhong (Ph.D.), Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at UConn's School of Pharmacy, has been inducted into the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 2025 Class of Fellows.

Joining UConn in 2007 as a faculty member, Professor of Pharmaceutics, Bodhisattwa Chaudhuri (Ph.D.), was inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences (AAPS) at its 2025 PharmSci 360 meeting on November 9th.

A testament to his sustained impact in the pharmaceutical sciences, Chaudhuri was one of only eight fellows selected worldwide.